Vintage Chinese Deco Rug BB6037 5'0" × 6'4" $4,500

This circa-1940 vintage Chinese Deco rug features an all-over multicolored lozenge field containing floral abstractions, and a border of a lattice that repeats the color scheme of the primary pattern. Featuring shades such as blue, lilac, beige, red and green, the vintage carpet is a modernist study in abstract geometric design. The vintage carpet is an intriguing relic of one of the most elegant times in America – the Jazz Age, following a disruption of the usual Mideastern trade for luxury carpets during the first World War. Looking to China to fill the textile vacuum, American entrepreneurs inspired a production of Western-looking variations on traditional Chinese design. The carpets perfectly complemented the extravagant style of the West at the time and became known as Chinese Art Deco, even though there was no Art Deco movement in China itself.